New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-21
THE sOUTH ON THE REBEL FLAG RAPE

THE SOUTH ON THE REBEL fLAt Hhr H.
Sackcloth with ashes trimmings was donned Dy
leading Southern editions when they learned tha'
The rebel flags were to stay where they were. Inc
charleston News and Courier comforts itself with
the nebulous deluson that President Cleveland TO-
scinded tle order because he had reached the con-
ch,sion that Congress alone can dispose oil tho
aags. The fact is that the President rescinded
the order because of the tremendous burst OF IN
dignation with which it was greeted by those VINO
had fought TO uphold the Union and by oil otirr
patriotic citizens of the North. Public OPINION
forced him 10 take the back track. lie took IL
through the loophole of legal consideration
Tho Richmond Dispatch sneers at what IL Is
nlcased to style "the affected indignation of the
Republican politicians OF the North ut the order
and notes that THE NFw-YoRK TRIBUNE protested
TO be greatly scandazed' All through its history
| THE TRrprNE has been greatly scandalzed at any
ATTEMPT to render treason anything else than odlous
IL condemned in uncompromising terms Mr.. Glove
lands understandable propOs<io ion TO transfer the
flags. which the armies of the Union had captured
from their proper resting place in the War Depart
ment to the hands Of those who would use them
MS 50 many object lessons in treason.
| The Augusta Chronicle evidently Is not salts
fled with President Cloy Glands relation to the incl
dent IL remarks that II the order to return the
tags must originate in Congress the President
should have known IL before al this hue and cry'
WAS. raised OF course he should. perhaps he did
But when a President finds himself pursued by a
cyclone IL is natural that he should hasten 10 make
a cyclone cellar out Of Conzress.
"Ihe Richmond Dispatch makes the order the
excuse Tor the display Of this unique tribute TO the
lost cause:
II has born said that n ia the man who doe t
no, urults
wrDngoi man ohon heartily fOrglVcs NO cannot Gus
10 reminded OF this saying whom wo SEQ inc niis
nant Indignation which has poem manlio..cI III w
northern States on account OF the order recently Issued
(snco cOuntermanded fo2 tho return 70 the rcNyiaI
states Of the batto-hags which havo been captured IN
battlo during tho war between inc states aht Nhicn
were rotung unused In the war department bulhh!
in tho minds OF tho malgnants 10 tho Justice Of the
causo OF the Norlh now ol-e can W. ", ,Spv ont
this hint for the benefit OF whom II may concern.
Pleasant reading that for old soldiers who
were filed with righteous anger at the thought
Of the rebel iags being returned to what President
Cleveland styles tho Confederate states This
representative Of Bourbonism wants them b under
stand that they fought on the wrong side and that
their indignation is due to that fact
"1hp Atlanta Constitution characterizcs the
protest OF the loyal North against the attempted
rape OF the ags as "a howl among Northern politl-
cal shr1ekersr and talks about these outward and
visible evidencesof rebellion in these glowing terms
BONNER aags mover lod drawer troops 70 oattie
Tho men who fought behind them sealed Their fath
rendered until there dlshonor In parting with
them and untn az much glory bad been won In DC
Tending them A. ever clustered about hags on whoh
victory rested. Wherever they may be left In the
dngy rooms at Warrington. spread In the capltols
Of tho states frnm which they were taken, they VIII
bear lasting testimony 10 the bravo and simple iatn
OF an honest people and their matchlcss valor In
battle and dauntess herolsm I'm war
1t is pretty clear from this that II Georgia's
TAGS had been returned, the BourbOns that swear
by The Constitution would have held an en-
thusiastic lost cause revival meeting.